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Hooper was concerned, was to be found in the blessed realisation that
she had actually deprived herself of the right to nag him, and that
was something he knew would prove to be a constant source of
irritation to her.
But when his children turned against him, he faltered. He had not
counted on that. They not only went off to live with their mother, but
they virtually wiped him out of their lives, quite as if he had passed
away and no longer existed in the flesh. The three of them stood by
the mother--as they should have done, we submit, considering Mr.
Hooper's habits--and shuddered quite as profoundly as she when the
name of the erring parent was mentioned in their presence. Mr. Hooper
couldn't for the life of him understand this treachery on the part of
his pampered offspring, on whom he had lavished everything and to whom
he had denied nothing in the way of luxury. It was hard for him to
realise that he was as much of a scamp and scapegrace in their young
eyes as he was in the eyes of his wife--and the whole of his wife's
family, even to the remotest of cousins.


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